Bounds for the Quartic Weyl Sum

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Autore principale: Heath-Brown, D. R.
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author Heath-Brown, D. R.
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contents We improve the standard Weyl estimate for quartic exponential sums in which the argument is a quadratic irrational. Specifically we show that \[\sum_{n\le N} e(αn^4)\ll_{\ep,α}N^{5/6+\ep}\] for any $\ep>0$ and any quadratic irrational $α\in\R-\Q$. Classically one would have had the exponent $7/8+\ep$ for such $α$. In contrast to the author's earlier work \cite{cubweyl} on cubic Weyl sums (which was conditional on the $abc$-conjecture), we show that the van der Corput $AB$-steps are sufficient for the quartic case, rather than the $BAAB$-process needed for the cubic sum.
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spellingShingle Bounds for the Quartic Weyl Sum
Heath-Brown, D. R.
Number Theory
11L15
We improve the standard Weyl estimate for quartic exponential sums in which the argument is a quadratic irrational. Specifically we show that \[\sum_{n\le N} e(αn^4)\ll_{\ep,α}N^{5/6+\ep}\] for any $\ep>0$ and any quadratic irrational $α\in\R-\Q$. Classically one would have had the exponent $7/8+\ep$ for such $α$. In contrast to the author's earlier work \cite{cubweyl} on cubic Weyl sums (which was conditional on the $abc$-conjecture), we show that the van der Corput $AB$-steps are sufficient for the quartic case, rather than the $BAAB$-process needed for the cubic sum.
title Bounds for the Quartic Weyl Sum
topic Number Theory
11L15
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.14531